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Dictionary of National Biography (Smith, Elder & Co., 1885–1901). Comprehensive biographical resource including British and Irish artists up to the year 1900 or so. Cyclopedia of painters and paintings, by J. D. Champlin & C. C. Perkins (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1913). Illustrated with b/w drawings of art, artists and their monograms:
Whilst artists have been involved in the production of books in Europe since the early medieval period (such as the Book of Kells and the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry), most writers on the subject cite the English visionary artist and poet William Blake (1757–1827) as the earliest direct antecedent.
Media in category "Artists' books" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars, 1913, La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France, illustrated book with watercolor applied through pochoir and relief print on paper, 200 x 35.6 cm, Princeton University Art Museum.jpg 380 × 1,986 ...
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older ...
List of artists featured on the show 100 Great Paintings; List of artists who created paintings and drawings for use in films; List of Black British artists; List of Canadian women artists; List of Catholic artists; List of centenarians (artists, painters and sculptors) List of English women artists; List of French stained glass manufacturers
Leonardo da Vinci (Stanley book) Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind; Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance; The Lives of the Artists (Bellori) Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects; Loved Ones (book)
Le Vite de’ Pittori, Scultori et Architetti. Dal Pontificato di Gregorio XII del 1572 in fino a’ tempi di Papa Urbano VIII nel 1642 ("Lives of the painters, sculptors, architects, from the papacies of Gregory XII in 1572 to Urban VIII in 1642") is an art history book by Giovanni Baglione, first published in 1642.
Biography portal; Lists portal; Visual arts portal; This category is for lists of visual artists (only please) included in biographical compilations, some of them very small and limjited in scope. Some articles cover the life of the biographer, or the biographical work, but all should have lists of the subjects that are complete or nearly so.